Visions and Revisions: Of American Poetry"... not revisions but one thoroughgoing and far-reaching revision -- of the course of American poetry through centuries, as commonly understood. It is polemical but good-humored, lightly and racily written but with passion, deeply serious, discerning and timely". -- Donald Davie |
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... romantic in the derogatory sense of that term- " Pinched our grimed faces to ghastly plight ” stands out as typical of the total poem . It is pompous , stilted ; its strict rhyme scheme , long - short line alternation , ponderous ...
... romantic in the derogatory sense of that term- " Pinched our grimed faces to ghastly plight ” stands out as typical of the total poem . It is pompous , stilted ; its strict rhyme scheme , long - short line alternation , ponderous ...
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... romantic ; Stevens , though he looked like a romantic in his early poems , was in fact more an Aristotelian , more a poet of the mind , even than Pope . In a certain way Stevens appeared to be an Emersonian A Modernist Coin.
... romantic ; Stevens , though he looked like a romantic in his early poems , was in fact more an Aristotelian , more a poet of the mind , even than Pope . In a certain way Stevens appeared to be an Emersonian A Modernist Coin.
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... Romantic , 17 , 19 , 80 Principles of Literary Criticism , The . See RICHARDS , I. A. professional poets and poetry , 9 ff . , 96 ff . , 136 ff . , 145 protest poetry ( of the 1960s ) . See Movement , The Proverbial Philosophy . See ...
... Romantic , 17 , 19 , 80 Principles of Literary Criticism , The . See RICHARDS , I. A. professional poets and poetry , 9 ff . , 96 ff . , 136 ff . , 145 protest poetry ( of the 1960s ) . See Movement , The Proverbial Philosophy . See ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Matriarchy of American Poetry | 16 |
The Good Gray Poet | 36 |
Copyright | |
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